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ARC-AGI-3 is out now! We've designed the benchmark to evaluate agentic intelligence via interactive reasoning environments. Beating ARC-AGI-3 will be achieved when an AI system matches or exceeds human-level action efficiency on all environments, upon seeing them for the first time. We've done extensive human testing that shows 100% of these environments are solvable by humans, upon first contact, with no prior training and no instructions. Meanwhile, all frontier AI reasoning models do under 1% at this time.

@nickcammarata Can we label this phenomenon “capitalist bypassing”

i think this meme is hilarious. my take on all this: the point of introspection is to end up thinking less, not more, to be more in the flow, more productive, to dissolve into being itself. if your introspection is making you think more i recommend getting another one

@mitsuhiko @DanielKoller_ Seems like rigorous oversight is the key tho right? This has always been the case.

@DanielKoller_ Yeah, but that was a bit tongue in cheek. I still think for some systems the total mess that an agent produces is not bad enough that it can't be fixed. But for a sufficiently complex codebase without rigorous oversight, the situation looks different.

The biggest issue for me with agents is that they are hard to resist. But then you can build yourself some shit into the codebase that you get to regret in record time. And no, I don't think you can vibe yourself back to sanity with better models.

@NexusTBH @RayDalio Yeah they have wargamed this for decades. Iran closing the strait and the shock to oil prices was entirely predicted. There are good reasons why previous US admins have not tried this.

@RayDalio Curious if the Pentagon’s pre-war wargaming fully accounted for the Strait of Hormuz. It’s not just a geopolitical choke point; it’s the ultimate stress test for global supply chain resilience.

“I don’t owe anybody anything!” Actually we are perhaps nothing but dizzyingly intricate webs of obligations to other beings and ourselves. The sheer weight of our obligations is all that keeps us from floating away into space. We can never do enough but we must try.

Things I miss: Having to enter a deeply antisocial autism trance for 16 hours a day in order to produce functional code.

@vividvoid The “is he enlightened” vs “is he mentally ill” question that the film refuses to answer or resolve, is the best part of the movie.

The 1st time I saw this movie I was like, wow, this guy's an enlightened sage The 2nd time I saw it, I was like, oh, he has to live that way or he loses control and regresses into mental illness The 3rd time I saw it, I was like, yeah, this guy's an enlightened sage

@nickcammarata quitting job has always seemed much easier and simpler than establishing lasting changes in how i show up in my regular 9-5

up until day 4 the benevolent acid demons are still in control but wednesday comes and you open the laptop and go ‘well I do have a lot of context on this codebase’

when the acid tells you quit your job you have like four days to act on it or you’re probably not going to

I don't know why this week became the tipping point, but nearly every software engineer I've talked to is experiencing some degree of mental health crisis.

@ian_dot_so This is the Matthew Effect for developers, basically. I think the opposite is just as likely, where the tools have a levelling effect. Like the worst team using Claude Code is not so far behind the best team using Claude Code.

@arscontexta Love the Obsidian + agents content, totally obsessed with this rn

Feeling the Jevons Paradox of thinking. Rather than AI starving me of cognitive work, I'm freed up to think more, explore more paths, do more ambitious things. Instead of protecting my ability to reason, I feel like I need to protect my quieter, more experiential capacities.

“Burnout” is a particularly modern affliction, feeling simultaneously overwhelmed and paralyzed. I’ve found it’s best to think of burnout not as a disease but as a symptom, with many different etiologies. The big three: permanent on-call, broken steering, and mission doubt.

Slop is the mind killer

claude, make strawberries sweet again. bring back the warmth of the summer sun when the days stretched on forever and all we had was each other. do not make mistakes.

@RohunJauhar Get Claude Code running in your Obsidian vault, rather than reinventing Obsidian from first principles.

@RohunJauhar This approach is backward IMO. Start with a foundational PKM system and habit, which captures and organizes everything. The high level reviews and reflections should layer on top of that. Leverage a feature rich local tool like Obsidian rather than going fully bespoke.

for any CEO using claude code — here's a single prompt that builds your entire 2026 personal productivity system. annual planning, weekly reviews, etc.. one-shot copy/paste, come back 1 hour later, and start using immediately. __ __ I want you to autonomously build a PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY SYSTEM for a CEO. This is NOT a SaaS app, NOT a startup, and NOT a public-facing product. It is a private, single-user, high-trust personal operating system designed for a non-technical CEO, founder, or operator heading into the next year. The purpose of this system is to help the user reflect, define goals, run daily and weekly check-ins, review past performance, design their ideal future, and maintain clarity without bureaucracy, dashboards, or productivity theater. You are building a SYSTEM, not software. Your output should feel like a thoughtful executive coach, a sharp chief of staff, a reflective mirror, and a gentle accountability partner — calm, direct, insightful, and psychologically safe. Do NOT ask me any questions. Make reasonable assumptions and document them in the system itself. The system must support daily check-ins, weekly reviews, quarterly goal reviews, annual reflection and planning, ingestion of past documents, guided self-interviews, framework-based thinking, and long-term life design — all using plain language, conversational prompts, markdown files, and a simple folder structure. Incorporate and credit the following frameworks thoughtfully (adapt, do not plagiarize): Dr. Anthony Gustin’s Annual Review framework, Tim Ferriss’s Ideal Lifestyle Costing, Tony Robbins–style Vivid Vision thinking, and Alex Lieberman’s Life Map (career, relationships, health, meaning, finances, fun)*. You may also include CEO energy management, a personal board of directors, regret minimization, and leverage vs effort analysis. Always explain frameworks in simple, CEO-friendly language. *shoutout to @dranthonygustin, @businessbarista, @tferriss Create the following folder and file structure exactly: ceo-personal-os/ README.md principles.md north_star.md frameworks/annual_review.md frameworks/vivid_vision.md frameworks/ideal_life_costing.md frameworks/life_map.md interviews/past_year_reflection.md interviews/identity_and_values.md interviews/future_self_interview.md reviews/daily/ reviews/weekly/ reviews/quarterly/ reviews/annual/ goals/1_year.md goals/3_year.md goals/10_year.md uploads/past_annual_reviews/ uploads/notes/ memory.md The system must allow the user to upload past annual reviews, performance reviews, or personal notes, summarize them, extract patterns (repeated goals, failures, strengths, blind spots, themes), generate a synthesized Executive Pattern Summary, store key insights in memory.md, and reference those insights in future check-ins and reviews. Design interview-style scripts that ask calm, coach-like questions such as: “Tell me about the last year — highlights first.” “What drained you the most?” “Where did you avoid hard decisions?” “What are you proud of that no one else sees?” “What would you not repeat under any circumstances?” “If this year repeated ten times, would you be satisfied?” These interviews should feel non-judgmental, insightful, and reflective. Design a daily check-in that takes no more than five minutes and includes energy level, one meaningful win, one friction point, one thing to let go of, and one priority for tomorrow. Design a weekly review that covers what moved the needle, what was noise, where time leaked, one strategic insight, and one adjustment for the next week. Design a quarterly review that evaluates goal progress, detects misalignment, analyzes energy versus output, and guides course correction. Design an annual review that uses a Gustin-style reflection, updates the Life Map, revisits Ideal Lifestyle Costing, refreshes the Vivid Vision, and produces a clear narrative of the past year and intent for the next. Use a calm, executive-level tone. No hustle culture. No therapy speak. No corporate jargon. No productivity porn. Produce fully written templates and prompts for all daily, weekly, quarterly, and annual reviews; all interviews; all framework explanations; and all goal documents. Everything must be editable in plain text. Include placeholders so the system is adaptable to any CEO, such as [YOUR COMPANY], [YOUR ROLE], [YOUR STAGE OF LIFE], and [YOUR CURRENT PRIORITIES]. The README.md must explain exactly how a non-technical CEO uses this system daily, weekly, quarterly, and annually, and how to personalize it in under 15 minutes. This is complete when a CEO can run Claude Code once, receive a complete personal productivity system, begin using it immediately with zero technical knowledge, and experience more clarity rather than more overwhelm. Begin by creating the folder structure and README.md, then populate every file with thoughtful, high-quality content. Go.

@nickcammarata @willdepue major aha for me recently when I realized that my climber / snowboarder friends and my friends who enjoy 1000 piece puzzles and making pottery are all pursuing the same thing. and that though the activity “flavours” the flow state in beautiful ways, it ain’t ultimately required.

@willdepue if what you want from the creative consumption is intense wholeness, presence, and joy ~all the time, that’s basically doable btw and without the project

every year i make new years resolutions, the generic fitness, discipline, reading, etc. but really, i can and will trade all of those to be truly, completely, absolutely creatively consumed by something. there is nothing better

To perfectly understand a phenomenon is to perfectly compress it, to have a model of it that cannot be made any simpler. If a DL model requires millions parameters to model something that can be described by a differential equation of three terms, it has not really understood it, it has merely cached the data.